Skirt.



UNITE STATES PATET- @FFICE.

BERNARD COHEN AND WILLIAM EPSTEIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SKIRT.

No. 887,5asu.

Specification of Letters Patent.

fntenced May 12, 1908.

Application filed June 1, 1907. Serial No. 276,81?

To all 107mm it may concern:

Be it known that we, Bnun'nnn COHEN and \VILLLUI EPSTEIN, both citizensof the United States, and residents, respectively, of the city of NewYork, borough ol Itianlurtton, in the county and State of New York, andof the city of New York, borough ol Brooklyn, in the county of Kings andState ol New York, have invented a. new and Improved Skirt, of which thefollowing is e. lull, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to wearing: apparel, and its object is to provideit new end iniproved skirt arranged to properly nnd neeu r hely litwomen having dili'ereut sized waists, at the some time insuring theproper hang of the garment.

The invention consists of novel lectures nnd parts and combinations ofthe some, as will be. more fully described herehml'ter and then pointedout in the claim.

A'priictieal embodiment of the invention is represented in theaccompanying drznvings forming a port of th', specification, in whichsimilar characters ol' reference indicate corresponding ports in all theviews.

Figure 'l is it perspective view of the improvement; Fig. L? is :1 rearelevation ol' the some in open position; Fig. 3 is 11, like view olthesome shmviug the elastic stretched.

The body A of the skirt is prel'eriibly l'orlned ol non-elastic materialand has on upper phiited portion A secured by stitches B to an elostie\rnist bond t, the attachment ol' the phiited portion A to the waistband (.7 being preferably at the inner side of the waist bond at thelower portion thereof. The ph'tits ol the plnited portion A" prelerablyincrease in number from the trout oi the garment to the sides or topportions and the book of the garment, and which buck prw 'vided with theusual placket l). Now by the zirrinigemeut deserihml the \vnist band (Inormally tits at thin-waisted person, but in case the skirt is for useby a. larger-waisted person the elastic band C readily gives orstretches and with it the plnited portion A, that is, the ,plaits openup more or less according to l in number toward the rear of the. body.

the size of the persons Waist. The front portion of the body onlyrequires large or no plaits at all, as the increase in the size of thepersons waist is accommodated or compensated for by the skirt stretchingalong the side or top iortious and the buck or placket portion ol the.skirt.

In the nuinui'aeture of the skirt described, the waist band is held in astretched position and the body A held with its upper non-plnitedportion on the stretched waist band, and then the said ports are sewedtogether (see Fig. 3), and when theelsstic waist bond (.1 now emit-rootsand returns to its nornuil condition then it 'eontmcts the upper portionof the body A, thus forming or gathering the upper body portion intophiits, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

iiy the nrmngement described e. skirt is formed eupnble of properlyfitting persons having diil'erent sized waists, at the sumslime insuringthe proper hang f the garment.

Although We have describe improve ment as it skirt it evident. that theimpro ement is nniiniy intended for underskirts or pettieonts, but nntyalso be used on the outer or dress skirt.

Having thus described our invention, we cloim us new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent:

A skirt comprising a body, an elastic waist bond stitched to the upperportion of the body, the body from the sides or hip portions to the buckbeing stitched to the waist band while the hitter is in a stretchedcondition, thereby gutl'iering or pluiting the upper part of the body atthe sides undlnick thereof on i the elastic waist band, the phiitsiilCiOflSilig in testimony \vhereot we hnvo signed our numes to thisspeciliezition in the presence ol two suhse ihiug witnesses.

Bl lllhikiti) LIOHEL Ni 1 LIAM EPSTILLN.

Witnesses:

Tmzo. G. Hos'rEn, JouN P. DAVIS.

